
On Conscience and Refraining from Communion
When we are faced with temptation, we often act as though we fall into it through weakness, and indeed many times that is the case.

When we are faced with temptation, we often act as though we fall into it through weakness, and indeed many times that is the case.

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One Friday afternoon I was making a Holy Hour before the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. For the first twenty or thirty minutes, I brought

Dr. Taylor Marshall had a recent post on the state of the priesthood by the numbers. The “priest to Catholics” ratio (taken from the Center

It has always struck me that the Lord started His life’s work at such a young age and died a mere three years later. There

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To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means